[cc-community] Promoting a CC book, Thicker Than Blood
M.A.Newhall
ttb at thickerthanbloodthebook.com
Sat Jun 10 18:19:50 EDT 2006
Hello Drew
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, drew Roberts wrote:
>
> Now I see it. I don't like what I see, but that is a different issue. (I like
> to see BY-SA and BY licenses in that order btw. Stems from liking to see GPL
> and BSD licenses in that same order - ignoring lgpl and MIT, etc.)
>
I agree that BY-SA is better than BY. I may do that for other stories
in the future. Right now I want to do the traditional publishing route
in addition to CC while protecting my fans from molestation for being, well,
fans. People will buy hard copies regardless if they are available.
If a sane 'translations OK' license is worked out I will probably change
the licensing to include that as well.
My goal is get as many people as possible to read the book and tell me
what they think. The plan was to release it under the CC first knowing it
couldn't be taken back. Then I would shop it to publishers. I was hoping
I could just skip the "shopping it" step this time around and shop it
along with it's sequel (I'm planning four) with a really strong fan base.
But I was having bad luck getting people to read, review (bad reviews are
good too I have a day job to fall back on), or list the book.
I was hoping the book industry was different than the music or movie
industries in that they didn't have a land lock on the distribution and
promotion channels. I am a little nervous because the book takes place
in the very near future and is a bit of a rail against intellectual property
itself. I think I have gone as far as I can without locking myself away from
potential readers. The type of readers that need to hear this sort of
critique. A person who might not think about where this is all going on
their own.
> As for places... ourmedia.org is one place. Then there is lulu, but someone
> already mentioned that.
>>
Thanks I'll check it out. Thank you.
>> Do you think that effects the legal status? 99% of the open
>> source stuff doesn't discuss license until after you download and open the
>> package.
>
> Well, not on freshmeat and sourceforge. I check licenses before downloading
> and trying stuff out. I want Free Software.
I dabble on the dark side, but yes copyleft is a little important to me.
8p
>
> Family is/was Dix Hills and friends in No. Bellmore if the address book is
> correct.
>
Cool. Tell them to come on down.
>> We meet at SUNY Farmingdale in Farmingdale NY (on Route 110.) We have
>> been around for about 8 years. It's pretty big these days. About 50
>> people a meeting and over 300 on the mailing list.
>
> What sorts of things do you all do?
>>
Meetings are about two hours. Usually we have a speaker teaching the
group about something for an hour and about an hour of penguin chatter.
Hey we've got free coffee! No membership dues! :)
Thanks for your help
Matt
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Matthew Newhall
President of LILUG
Long Island Linux Users Group
president at lilug.org
http://lilug.org
If we are reincarnated after we die, and time in between lives is not linear,
who to say we are not all the same person.
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